The crew met at Coral Street around 8:30am to assess the swell ocean side. There were some breakers at Coral, with swell looking around 4-6 feet, but it was extremely choppy, so we decided to head more bayside to Otter Cove. Attendees were myself, Alex Watson, Josh Thorndike, Gregg Shimaura, Mervin Pan, Jason Demers, and Jason's younger brother Aaron. Several other members, Aaron Bever, Dennis Belcher, and Wasen Van Ventura took kayaks out of Stillwater South the same morning.

Once we all settled into the new destination, we assessed the water and enjoyed the sun, as it was warming up around 9am. We started noticing an unusually significant amount of debris in the water, and Alex made a note that a sailboat had crashed nearby recently. After suiting up, we started making trips down to the water to pull some of the garbage out of the water as we saw it shoring. Significant items were taken, I pulled a full canvas sail out of the water, a black duffel bag, and an REI jacket. I believe the jacket was still intact and Jason's wife wound up taking it home. I took home a mesh bottom bag which was used to hold the sails, which you see in the below photograph. There were even parts of the boat washing up on shore, so were able to pull some of those large fiberglass pieces out of the water.

We eventually made it in the water around 9:30-10:00am. I immediately began to swim to the left where I found several curious harbor seals tailing me. Most people made it about 100-200 yards from our launch point. As we dove, we continued to find various debris floating around on the surface. On several occasions, Gregg came swimming up to me wearing a newly discovered baseball cap. He came home with two of them. Around 11:30, the divers were starting to head back to shore, and I followed suit by noon. I came in with 2 Grass Rocks, a Black Rock, and a Monkey-Faced Eel. Several others came in with various Rockfish. When walking to our cars, several enthusiastic tourists wanted to take pictures of our fish, so we happily obliged. When everyone was out of the water and dry, we made our way a few blocks over to Lover's Point, and everyone grabbed a bite at the Cafe there. It was a surprisingly sunny day, and people were out and about in swimsuits, a strange thing to see in the middle of January. It was a long weekend for all of us, as we had our club's breakfast meeting the day before, we were all fairly worn out. We said our goodbyes and headed our separate ways to end the weekend, and all in all was a great way to kick off our 2018 year.